Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
Willard Mitt Romneyis an American businessman and politician who served as the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and was the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 election...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 March 1947
CityDetroit, MI
CountryUnited States of America
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We have a lot of people who have a substantial financial interest in the outcome, and the interests of clients that they care for, and nonetheless are in a position where they can play an active role in this regard,
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I was born in the middle of the century in the middle of the country, a classic Baby Boomer.
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I think we should have the majority of the party's voters decide who they want as their nominee.
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I think that the effort to continue to look for some law to somehow make violence go away is missing the point.
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I think Dodd-Frank has contributed to a concentration of banking assets in the hands of a small number of banks.
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People who represent drunk drivers know that all you have to do is then go to the Registry of Motor Vehicles and show a hardship, and you get your license back,
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Kids in our urban schools, most of them minorities, are not succeeding at anywhere near the rate of their counterparts in the suburbs. And let me be clear: the failure of our urban schools to prepare our children today for the challenges of tomorrow is the civil rights issue of our generation.
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just wouldn't be tenable on more than an emergency basis.
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My red line is Iran may not have a nuclear weapon. It is inappropriate for them to have the capacity to terrorize the world. Iran with a nuclear weapon or with fissile material that can be given to Hezbollah or Hamas or others has the potential of not just destabilizing the Middle East.
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The 21st century can and must be an American century. It began with terror, war, and economic calamity. It is our duty to steer it onto the path of freedom, peace, and prosperity.
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The ability to close the achievement gap is the civil rights issue of our generation, ... This is the way to do it.
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I think people should have the common courtesy and judgment - the good judgment - not to be - not to offend other peoples' faiths.
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We are spending too much money. Our discretionary spending - taking out Iraq and mandatory spending - grew 49 percent in four years. Our debt has grown. Pork is always dispiriting. But pork being spent at a time of war is particularly dispiriting.
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When I was elected governor of my state, I had a legislature 87 percent Democrat. It was not lost on me that to get anything done, I couldn't be attacking them. I had to find ways to reach out to them.